We have a creative idea and we want you to join us! Harris supporter and international singer P!nk will be performing at the Dome on Sunday, October 6th at 6:30pm. Who do you think will be attending this concert? Probably young women, who will be key to voting in November. While people stand in line, we’ll be checking their voter registration and talking to them about voting for Harris and Prop 1. We’ll have stickers to give them too. Would you like to be a part of this fun action to engage young people in the upcoming election? Come to our CNY Solidarity Meeting Sunday, September 29th meeting to learn more details.

Kudos to Sarah Reeske whose LTE warning voters about Brandon Williams was published this week in the Daily Sentinel. Since the newspapers only publish a submission from an individual once every month, each of us only has a couple of opportunities to be heard–and influence voters– between now and Nov. 5th. Keep writing LTE’s! Let your neighbors know what’s at stake in this election, or why our Democratic candidates deserve their support.  

• Here are some LTE Tips:
  https://indivisible.org/resource-library/how-write-letters-editor-really-get-attention

Please note that most newspapers have early deadlines for letters in support of candidates before the election

The U.S. cannot claim to be working towards peace while simultaneously sending the weapons that enable genocide. The only way to reach a desperately needed lasting cease-fire—including the release of all Israeli and Palestinian captives—is for the U.S. to exert pressure on the Israeli government by supporting a full arms embargo.   

Send a message today.  – through the American Friends Service Committee

9/17 – Call Wisconsin for H/W with Indivisible. Link

9/21 – Indivisible and Fated Mates: Romanlandia phone bank with special guest (shhhh) Julia Quin, author of the Bridgerton series! Link

9/24 – Call Arizona for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/1 – Call North Carolina for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/7 – Call Georgia for H/W with Indivisible. Link

10/15 – Call Florida for H/W with Indivisible. Link

Hey if you think it’s fun and funny to amplify joke versions of the malicious MAGA smears claiming that immigrants are eating cats, then you’re right in there with JD Vance, who asserted that he’ll continue spreading it though he knows it’s not true. You’re amplifying hate, whether or not you think you’re a progressive person–and probably you’re not thinking about how you’re impacting members of the groups under attack who have to see your posts….

What we should have all learned since Gamergate and Pizzagate is that every time we repeat a smear or lie, we embed it deeper in the culture, fortify its ability to harm, and only when serious deconstruction/debunking is taking place (no, your cute memes are not that) is it likely to dismantle rather than perpetrate. The rumor/smear was started by actual Nazis. Thanks for not helping the Nazis….

And here’s a really good online essay about why this is so harmful and how that harm is intended to spread to Harris: https://www.theframelab.org/jd-vances-racist-attack-on…/

A piece about those actual Nazis who started this: https://gwenfrisbiefulton.medium.com/all-eyes-should-be…

Read Solnit’s comments on Facebook Here

…and for more on how messaging works, Read George Lakoff’s book Don’t Think of an Elephant

Strategy: Is this the real reason Trump and Vance are telling the cats and dogs lie?

The advisor argued, “We talk about abortion, we lose. We talk about immigration, we win…. We’ll take the hit to prove the bigger point.”

Read it on AlterNet

Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression and the increased militarization of higher education.

…a common formula: more militarization, more law enforcement, more criminalization, and more consolidation of institutional power.

Read More on Mondoweiss.net

“…construction of reactors has a huge carbon footprint. And the nuclear fuel cycle is highly toxic. Uranium mining in the American Southwest has littered the land with piles of tailings (residues of processing the ore) and contaminated the groundwater, exposing local — especially Indigenous — communities to radioactivity and high cancer rates. Nuclear energy creates highly radioactive waste which must be stored at the reactors since there’s no permanent repository to put it in. And how do you ensure safe containment of something that emits deadly radiation for the next 200,000 years?”

Read More on Syracuse.com

The eviction crisis is on our doorstep today, and Syracuse demands a solution that will create an impact immediately.

That solution is a Good Cause Eviction law for the city of Syracuse. Good Cause Eviction eliminates “no-fault” evictions — removing a tenant just because a landlord wants to — and gives tenants the right of basic due process during an eviction. Contrary to popular belief, it does not ban evictions. Rather, it requires a landlord to present to a court of law a good reason to evict a tenant, like criminal violations, failure to pay rent, or preventing a landlord from accessing the property.

Read More on Syracuse.com

Tuesday, September 17, 6 – 7:30pm EDT

Central Library.  447 S Salina St. Syracuse, 13202

Join us for an important discussion on housing, education, childcare, and other issues that contribute to the high rate of childhood poverty in Syracuse. The forum will feature multiple policy experts. Hosted by Empire State Voices.

For those who cannot attend in person, the event will be livestreamed on the ESV Facebook page.

Register Here

Learn about grant programs and other ways to save energy and money this coming season!

Wednesday, Sept. 18 6 – 7:30 PM

Valley Plaza, 4141 S. Salina St. Syracuse

Event by EnergySmart CNY

Join us for an interactive workshop where we’ll dive into resources that can save you energy and money!

Come enjoy refreshments and take home a FREE DIY energy kit valued at $40

We’ll go over the items in your FREE DIY energy kit and how to use them, as well as grant programs available to both renters and homeowners.

Co-hosted by @healthyneighborhoodsnow at their indoor market space

Dinner and snacks will be provided.

Wednesday, Sept. 18 – 6 p.m.

Clay Town Hall, 4401 Route 31

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, join Citizen Action of NY and AGREE at the Clay Town Hall at 6 p.m. to speak out against National Grid’s proposed rate hikes. The utility wants to raise upstate gas and electric rates by a whopping 20% and 15%, hitting working families the hardest. Not only that–a portion of the rate hike will be used to invest in dangerous and dirty fossil fuel infrastructure. This is your chance to tell the Public Service Commission why these hikes are unjust and unaffordable. Stand with us, and let’s hold National Grid accountable!

Email Ethan at egormley@citizenactionny.org for more information, carpool options, or talking points.

More info on PSC Site

Wednesday, September 18th at 7pm on Zoom

Earlier this summer, Danskammer Energy withdrew its application to build a new fracked gas plant on the shore of the Hudson River in Newburgh, NY. This victory was the result of a multi-year campaign with thousands of supporters, including many organizations, elected officials, and businesses, plus many dedicated volunteers. As we transition to Beyond Danskammer, we’ll be showcasing other campaigns being led by coalition member organizations. Please join us to learn about a variety of issues, including:

• History of Danskammer Point and the Potential Land Rights Claim for Indigenous Peoples (Overlook Mountain Center)

• PFAs in Newburgh’s Water Supply (Newburgh Clean Water Project)

• PCBs in the Hudson River (Scenic Hudson)

• Climate Superfund Site Bill (NYPIRG)

• Iroquois Fracked Gas Pipeline Expansion (Food & Water Watch)

• NY HEAT Act (Alliance for a Green Economy)

• Utility Justice (Communities for Local Power)

• CO2 fracking in the Southern Tier & the push to ban it (Frack Action)

• Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (Beyond Plastics on behalf of UAct)

• Real Climate Solutions Are Not Radioactive

• Ulster Co 70% by 2030 (Ulster County Legislator Manna Jo Greene)
  
  

Register here to receive the Zoom link for the Beyond Danskammer webinar.

Thursday, Sept. 19th from 6 – 8pm

Clary Middle School, 100 Amidon Dr., Syr. 13205

County Legislator Maurice Brown holds a Town Hall Meeting on the Onondaga County Budget with constituents. We are seeking your input on how your taxpayer dollars should be spent. Please join us!

All County residents are welcome. 

T0 find your County legislator, see Find your Representatives page.

Thursday, Sept. 19th from 6 – 7:30pm 

Fayetteville Library; live and Zoom.

Hear Industry Experts, including: NYSERDA, National Grid, Clean Communities of CNY, and NY Bus Sales highlight the historic investments and incentives currently available for cleaner transportation choices.
Find out how to get assistance with applying for incentives.
Question and Answer session with industry experts.

Learn the facts about Funding, Partnerships and Resources.

Thanks to our supporters: Citizens Action of NY, Climate Change Awareness and Action, Energy 21, Greening USA, National Grid, New York Bus Sales, NYSERDA, Sierra Club – Central NY Chapter.

For more information contact pwirth2@verizon.net or 315-476-3396

Please Register Today

Friday, September 20, 12:05 pm to 1:00 pm

via Zoom. Free and open to everyone. 

Register Here

This forum will present the findings of the extensive public engagement process led by the CNY Community Engagement Committee (CEC) to identify priorities that will help ensure that opportunities presented by Micron’s investment in our region benefit all. Formed by Governor Hochul, the CEC engaged nearly 13,000 individuals through listening sessions, focus groups, surveys, and more. The findings of their recently released report, “Harnessing Opportunity, Community Priorities for Central New York,” now serve as the framework for the distribution of $500 million in awards over 20 years through the Green Chips Community Fund, a partnership between Empire State Development and Micron Technology, Inc. Panelists will speak to the depth of the engagement process, the priorities that emerged, and next steps for moving these priorities forward. The CEC report: https://www.cnycec.org/community-priorities-document

Panelists::

Daniel Kolinski, Regional Director, CNY Empire State Development 

Melanie Littlejohn, President & CEO CNY Community Foundation

Tim Penix, Vice President SUNY Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center

Saturday, September 21 1 – 3:30pm EDT

NY-22 is the red line standing between our democracy and the chaos of Project 2025.

Come to our canvass to support Rachel May and John Mannion!

Show them We Won’t Go Back!

Sign up Here

Sept. 22. Gather at 11:30. Procession begins at 12 noon.

Corner of Euclid Avenue and Westcott Street. 

Please join us in stepping out to step Back from the Brink of nuclear war! 

Pick up a peace dove, a sign, a banner or other prop. This is part of a week of events calling for supporting the UN Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. 

Tuesday, September 24, 7PM
Durland Alternative Library Anabel Taylor Hall 

241 Campus Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850

AND Wednesday, September 25, 6:00 PM Cinemapolis Theater

120 East Green St Ithaca, NY 14850
Speaker after film w/Q&A: Frida Berrigan

The Berrigan brothers, Philip and Daniel, both Catholic priests, and Philip’s wife, Liz, a former nun — spent their entire lives engaged in faith-based, nonviolent resistance to war, racism, nuclear proliferation, and the Catholic Church. Named America’s “Most Wanted” fugitives by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, they were the “influencers” of the day, not only spreading the gospel of nonviolence in pulpits worldwide, but appearing on talk shows, in rock lyrics, and on magazine covers. Speaker after film w/Q&A: Frida Berrigan

Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Ithaca Catholic Worker, The Daniel Berrigan Society, The Durland Alternatives Library

Wednesday, Sept. 25 – 1 p.m. Online

Deadline to register: Monday, Sept. 23, 3 p.m.)

Couldn’t make the in-person hearing (see Sept. 18 event above)?  There’s a virtual public hearing on National Grid’s rate hikes on Sept. 25. Register to speak up and make your voice heard without leaving home. Sign up now and let’s keep the pressure on National Grid to protect our communities from unjust rate hikes and to stop more investment in dirty fossil fuel infrastructure.

RSVP here

Wednesday, September 25 @ 7pm 

Grace Church, 819 Madison Street, Syracuse.

We invite all singers to join us for our 2024 winter season: Sharing the Harvest.

At our core, we are dedicated to creating a space where every voice can rise in harmony, singing songs that not only sound beautiful but also carry the powerful messages of peace, freedom, and justice.

Thursday, September 26, 6 – 8pm 

Everson Museum of Art – Hosmer Auditorium, 401 Harrison St. Syracuse, NY, 13202 

Environmental Storytelling CNY Fall 2024 https://envirostorycny.com/events

In this interactive film screening, award-winning filmmaker and science communicator Dena Seidel and her students from Rutgers University will showcase a series of short films that focus largely on food systems and the collaborative work of scientists and communities to better understand and improve these systems. Between short films, Seidel and her team will ask the audience to reflect on what they’ve seen and to begin to craft their own food and science stories.

Thursday, September 26th, 7 pm @ 

Syracuse Peace Council, 2013 E. Genesee St.  (top floor, accessible, parking in the back) 

Join the Nuclear Free World Committee of SPC for Television Event, a documentary about the making of “The Day After,” which spurred the huge anti-nuclear movement in the 80s and helped inspire a world-wide round of nuclear weapons treaties during that era. Shown in recognition of the UN designated International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons . Can we do something of that magnitude to spur a renewed anti-nuclear movement?

Friday, September 27, 10am – 12pm 

SUNY ESF’s Digital Storytelling Studio – 120 Marshall Hall 

https://envirostorycny.com/events

In this interactive workshop, Dena Seidel and her team of undergraduate scientist filmmakers will lead a series of activities that show how science is a story that can be told in ways that reach broader audiences and encourage greater scientific and civic participation. Through this workshop, attendees will sketch out science stories and explore the close relationship between a narrative story arc and the scientific method. Rutgers students will share their video storytelling insights and discuss the trust and relationship building needed to co-create communal stories. 

Register here.

Sunday, September 29, 2024 

Start/Finish: Everson Plaza, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse 13202

A 5K Run and 3K Roll/Stroll event that traces a portion of the infamous ‘redline’ that helped segregate Syracuse. During the Great Depression, the Federal Government worked with local officials and real estate professionals to draw maps that placed red lines around neighborhoods deemed too risky to receive federal housing assistance. These ‘redlining’ maps deprived Syracuse’s most racially integrated neighborhoods of opportunity, and their effects can still be felt today. Run the Redline to experience the physical spaces shaped by these federal policies.

Sign Up Here

RSVP Here

Tuesday, October 01, 2024• 5:30 PM- 7:00PM

Location TBA

Jobs to Move America

Micron is coming to Central New York and is scheduled to receive upwards of $20B in public subsidies and tax credits from federal, state, and local governments. With this historic investment, the CNY community has been promised thousands of good jobs created by the project, but there has been little discussion or firm commitments made regarding what exactly a “good job” is, or how equitable access for said jobs will be achieved for current local residents, especially Syracusans. 

Please join us for a community Town Hall discussion around CNY Micron good jobs and equitable access.

Thursday, October 3 at 12-1p

Columbus Circle Park, 298 E Jefferson St, Syracuse, NY 13202

Communications Workers of America represents workers at TCG Player, a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay and we’ve been fighting for a fair contract for over a year now.

They’re all really great and brave workers – but it’s been a slog. More here: https://tcgunion.org/

We’re about to release a “Making Ends Meet” report about the poverty wages at eBay and doing a rally to get some press.

We’ll have about 50 workers and local electeds – and we’d love to have some ally support.

Monday, October 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. 

Community Room at Salt City Market, 505 S. Salina Street, Syracuse

Interactive Q&A about the East Adams Public Housing Redevelopment, moderated by our Managing Editor Chris Libonati, with key community leaders:

·      William Simmons, Executive Director, Syracuse Housing Authority

·      Michael Collins, Commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development, City of Syracuse

·      Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, Director of the Racial Justice Center, NYCLU

·      Raquan Pride-Green, Executive Director, Blueprint 15

·      Marquita Hetherington, Neighborhood Navigator, Blueprint 15

A panel conversation with the City of Syracuse, Syracuse Housing Authority, Blueprint15, the NYCLU, and members of the public to explore the systems to support tenants during this transition, review the projected timeline and progress to date, and discuss residents’ concerns.

Free and open to the public. Coffee and refreshments 

Register and see more here

Syracuse Street Heat is just one, very unencumbered way to work for peace and social justice. We’re part of a decades-long grassroots tradition here, in Ithaca and elsewhere. We stand out and stand up for what we stand for. 

A handful of us stand at busy intersections, for 45 minutes at rush hour, pivoting to the traffic with hand-held signs. We want to get the public thinking about issues often underrepresented in the media. We’re there weekly in almost all of Syracuse’s weather (we seldom cancel). Bring your own sign – or use one of ours. No meetings or committees, so participation time is minimal (yay!) Our Team:  Ann, Dick, Ed, Geoff, Jim, Julienne, Les, Leslie, Peter…. 

To learn more, call Ann or Ed: (315) 478 4571.      

FIRST & THIRD TUESDAYS OF THE MONTH…4 TO 4:45 P.M. (Killer Drones)

Across from the main gate of Hancock AFB, home of the 174th Attack Wing of the NYS National Guard  training Reaper drone operators. 6000 East Molloy Road.

EVERY FRIDAY…4 to 4:45 p.m. (“CEASE FIRE NOW”, etc./ Palestine solidarity)

A handful of us disperse along the sidewalk with our signs at the very busy intersection of Erie Blvd East and East Genesee St. (across from the DeWitt fire station; park in the nearby mini mall lot.)

EVERY  SATURDAY…9 to 9:45 a.m. 

(range of issues: racism, Palestine solidarity  anti-war, anti-war, etc.)

Across from the Syracuse Regional Market, 2100 Park  St. at the 81N Liverpool/Park St. exit. Park in the Market lot on the north side of Park. You can use one of our signs or bring your own.

Donate to the CNY Solidarity Coalition

CNY Solidarity Coalition contributes regularly to local progressive organizations: Syracuse Peace Council, National Action Network, & Urban Jobs Coalition. We also make occasional donations as needed to other local groups. We depend on your donations for this. 

Donate Online through PayPal

Mail donations to: 

CNY Solidarity Coalition

P.O. Box 6137, Teall Post Office, 226 Teall Ave., Syracuse NY 13217

Our Committees

To sign up for each of the committee mailing lists, contact the person listed. 

Indivisible Onondaga County: Contact: Tom Keck

Climate Justice: Contact: Dick Kornbluth

SLAT (State/Local Action Team) Contact: Peter McCarthy  

Beyond War and Militarism: A joint committee of CNY Solidarity Coalition and the Syracuse Peace Council. Contact: Ron Van Norstrand

Elaine Denton

Peter McCarthy

Coordinating Committee

CNY Solidarity Coalition